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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women do not earn as high salaries as men. Moreover, they look forward to marrying...
...hundred years ago in England, Roman Catholics could not be seated in Parliament without taking oaths that meant the renunciation of their faith. Then Irish Catholics of County Clare elected Daniel O'Connell to Parliament, threatened to elect him repeatedly until seated. Fearing civil war an unwilling Parliament and unwilling King George IV passed the Emancipation Bill, giving Catholics equal political rights with Protestants...
Rare are churchmen with financial ability, yet a Rochester, N. Y. congregation a few years ago insured Dr. Clinton Wunder for $100,000 and watched with amazement the ease with which he financed their $3,000,000 Baptist Temple Building. Last week, after hearing Dr. Wunder read an unexpected note of resignation, the congregation was even more aware of his smartness...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
...England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John Amadio against her husband-flutist. Soprano Austral is now the second Mrs. Amadio. That, declared Dean Ede, the Church of England could not condone, contract or no contract. Indignantly Husband Amadio protested. His pleasant, big-chested wife had done much for the Church in charity concerts...